The Wardrobe Men and Women
THEY live either in the tailors’ shops and the unending wardrobes, or in the actors’ dressing-rooms.
From such a wardrobe you might clothe the entire garrison of Prague, of course in a somewhat heterogeneous fashion. There hang thirty Roman senators, a dozen monks, four cardinals, one pope, fifty Roman legionaries complete with helmets and swords, twenty men from Chodsko,[1] seven bailiffs, two or three headsmen, a few Onegins, knights of velvet and silk, and Spanish knights with pumpkin breeches, further whole bushels of shepherds’ and musketeers’ broad-brimmed hats, scores of tall pointed caps and shakos, lambskin caps and Boyars’ fur caps, heaps of pointed shoes, riding-boots, turn-down boots, sandals, tall
- ↑ Historical district in Bohemia.
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